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NHS campaigners from around the country lobbied Parliament against privatisation and cuts

NHS privatisation must be stopped!

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A LOBBY of Parliament called by the Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign, and backed by the Unite trade union, was held yesterday, midday. It was...
A group of the locked-out Gate Gourmet workers outside the Employment Tribunal in Reading

GATE GOURMET SACKINGS ‘PREMEDITATED’ – union pfficial confirms

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APPEARING at the Gate Gourmet sacked workers employment tribunal yesterday was Brendan Gold, TGWU national secretary for civil aviation transport. He was also responsible at...
The Gate Gourmet locked-out workers campaign team in Southall High Street yesterday

Gate Gourmet Workers Rally

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Gate Gourmet locked out workers are campaigning every day up until their first anniversary march and rally in Southall this Sunday, 20th...

‘WE HAVE HAD MASSIVE SUPPORT FROM PUBLIC’ – ASLEF representative tells News Line

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‘WE HAVE had massive support from the public,’ the ASLEF rep Lucio Buffone told News Line when he spoke out on the well-attended picket...

‘WE HAVE PUNISHED THE AGGRESSOR’ – Medvedev tells Sarkozy

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PRESIDENT Dmitry Medvedev said in Moscow yesterday that he had ordered an end to the ‘peace enforcement’ operation in Georgia, after five days of...

NHS PRIVATISATION BY STEALTH – BMA accuses Blair government

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The Blair government is trawling Europe for health privateers to carry out elective operations in the NHS, the British Medical Association yesterday revealed in...
Tamils in Parliament Square on Monday demonstrate against the Sri Lankan Army genocide against the Tamil people

TAMIL LEADERS TREACHEROUSLY KILLED WHILE UNDER WHITE FLAG – Prabakaran still alive and fight...

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WHILE rejecting Colombo’s claim of the killing of LTTE leader V Prabakaran and assuring his safety and well-being, LTTE’s International Relations Head S...

May Beaten – Corbyn Calls For Election!

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PM MAY lost her latest high-stakes gamble in the House of Commons when her EU Withdrawal Bill was defeated by 344-286 MPs despite a...

Greek Seafarers National Strike!

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GREEK seafarers of the PENEN trade union (deck hands) staged a most important national strike last Thursday morning against a government Bill which wipes...
Mau Mau detainees outside London’s High Court recently won massive compensation for British army atrocities committed against them

‘Prosecute those who murdered my son’ says Colonel Mousa

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BAHA Mousa’s father, Colonel Mousa, considers it is imperative that those responsible for the death of Baha Mousa, including the commanding officer, are prosecuted. Public...

ROYAL MAIL TO IMPOSE CHANGES – CWU to carry on talking

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THE Communication Workers Union yesterday announced new strikes before the end of September, if no agreement is reached with Royal Mail, who intend to...
North Est London Council of Action picket of Chase farm Hospital yesterday morning

‘we Won’t Let Chase Farm Close!’

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‘WE’RE not going to let Chase Farm close,’ Bill Rogers, North East London Council of Action Secretary told News Line yesterday at a lively...

Low interest rates spark new global economic crisis

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LOW interests rates ‘risk sparking a new crisis’ across Europe, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) warned in its annual report released yesterday. The BIS...

Imf Dictates NHS And Pension Cuts!

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The IMF has warned the British government it must make savage cuts in NHS spending and carry out pension ‘reforms’ to cut its debt...

SCRAP SATS – Teachers better than tests at predicting grades

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CHILDREN across the UK began sitting their Sats tests yesterday, with parents at many schools boycotting the exams and taking their children out of...

Palestinian Red Crescent wants to know what happened to Hind Rajab!

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THE Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in the Gaza Strip has called on the international community to exert pressure on the Israeli regime to...
Chagos Islanders demonstrating outside the House of Lords demanding the right to return to Diego Garcia

Labour’s Secret Detentions On Diego Garcia

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Legal charity Reprieve yesterday demanded the British government reveal details of the secret illegal detention of ‘ghost’ prisoner Mustafa Setmariam Naser on Diego Garcia...

‘Down With The Junta Of The Banks’

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ATHENS – Greek workers delivered a powerful first blow to the government’s counter-revolutionary Stability Plan last Wednesday with a magnificent national all public...

Homeless Children Housed In Containers!

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TENS of thousands of homeless children in England are ‘temporarily’ housed in converted shipping containers and office blocks, freezing in winter, sweltering in the...

3-day week looms! JCB cuts 4,000 workers’ hours

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DIGGER manufacturer JCB is cutting production and working hours in the UK as it faces a shortage of components from China due to the...

JDE bosses step up fire & rehire dispute

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UNITE has reported that bosses at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury will stop workers from taking summer holidays to thwart an overtime ban,...

STOP NHS PRIVATISATION! – NHS Logistics strike today

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UNISON members at five NHS Logistics sites – supplying 43,000 items from beds to surgical supplies to hospitals and GPs across England – will...
HELEN PANKHURST, great-granddaughter of suffragette founder, Emmeline (centre left, in hat) next to RACHEL HOLMES  (centre, author of ‘Eleanor Marx: A Life’) with the crowd at the ‘Walk in Her Shoes’ rally

Walking in the shoes of the suffragettes

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LEADING stars, joined crowds at a rally and march yesterday morning, led by two generations of the historic suffragette Pankhurst family in London on...

May Put On 3 Days Notice

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THE LABOUR, Tory, LibDem, SNP alliance of pro-EU MPs yesterday afternoon delivered another blow on behalf of the European Union against the 2016 referendum...

Bectu Outsourcing Strike!

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BECTU members outsourced to Capita are to strike because of the company’s refusal to allow them to continue working on the BBC contract. Members...
Youth marching in London insist that the NHS is not for sale

Big Business To Access Medical Records

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PATIENT confidentiality will be violated and open to abuse, Unite union said in response to plans to allow high street pharmacies like Boots,...

‘SYSTEM RIGGED FOR RICH!’ – says Labour leader Corbyn

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‘WE HAVE four weeks. Four weeks to take our message to voters to convince them Britain can be better,’ Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the...
BA cabin crew pickets at Heathrow yesterday determined to win their struggle

‘we Are Fighting Union-Busting’

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STRIKING British airways cabin crew are completing their latest five-day strike at midnight tonight and will be resuming their next five days action at...

Chronic NHS Staff Shortages At Guy’s And St Thomas’

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CHRONIC staff shortages, concerns about patient safety and plunging morale at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust are the key findings of a...

Hamas Approves New Ceasefire Deal

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‘WE RESPONDED positively to a new proposal over Gaza,’ Hamas chief in Gaza Khalil al-Hayya said on Saturday, adding that his movement had approached...
Barristers and solicitors demonstrated outside Parliament during a strike last year against legal aid cuts

Barristers strike against legal aid cuts!

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‘THOSE who cannot afford to pay for a solicitor, and those who are denied legal aid, are suffering at the hands of the government’,...

Raab Outlines Brexit Crisis!

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TORY Brexit secretary Dominic Raab yesterday set out what he called ‘practical and proportionate’ advice in case the UK leaves the EU with no...

CWU votes to Boycott Private Mail!

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Members of the Communication Workers Union representing 160,000 employees in Royal Mail Group yesterday morning voted unanimously in favour of a mail boycott if...
Striking bus workers outside the Ash Grove depot in Hackney yesterday demanding the reinstatement of their steward

40 Bus Workers Picket Ash Grove

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FORTY bus workers had a very lively picket yesterday morning, at Hackney’s Ash Grove bus depot in east London, as they staged the first...
FBU strikers at Chelsea fire station  are determined to win their battle and are prepared to fight victimisations

FBU EC member sacked! – union considering taking strike action

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THE firefighters union, FBU, yesterday said that they are considering strike action to defend Buckinghamshire firefighter and FBU executive committee member Ricky Matthews. He was...

CRISIS AT THE BANK – Division over quantitative easing

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The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was divided over its ‘quantitative easing’ policy of printing money this month. The Minutes of the last...

TORIES SPLIT – Johnson faces revolt over new restrictions

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‘I WANT to see this community testing which has been successful in Liverpool rolled out right across the tier three areas, as much as...

Israel’s ‘terrorism, threat and intimidation won’t frighten us!’ – says Palestinian Prime Minister Shtayyeh

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THE agreement between Israeli Prime Minister-Designate Benjamin Netanyahu and extremist Itamar Ben Gvir is ‘a broad call for an escalation in the violence in...

GOURMET LOCKOUT COSTS BA £100m

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FURIOUS locked-out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday slammed Transport and General Workers Union officials for demanding British Airways workers, who came out on strike in...
Teachers on the pensions strike with a message for Tory education secretary Michael Gove

‘FREE SCHOOLS A DISGRACE’ – says NUT’s Blower

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DISMANTLING our state education system and parcelling it off to unelected, unaccountable sponsors is a disgrace,’ Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union...

Union Leaders Warn King

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BANK of England Governor King’s insistence that nothing must be done to prevent the squeeze in living standards down to 1920s levels, has...
Travel Safe workers lobbied City Hall yesterday against their treatment by STM Security Group UK

Travel Safe workers to strike for their rights!

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‘SLAVERY should go and our rights given!’ demanded London Overground workers who were lobbying the London Mayor’s office yesterday in preparation for their February...
Local NUT members came to support CWU pickets at the Greenford Mail Centre in West London yesterday morning

‘we All Need To Strike Together’

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THE second series of strikes in the national postal dispute commenced yesterday morning, with Mail Centres walking out at the start of three days...
Junior doctors join a demonstration in London against the privatisation of the NHS

NO TWO TIER NHS! – RBS ‘conditional philanthropy’ rejected

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Plans to bring one of the world’s most advanced health scanners to Edinburgh risk creating a two-tier NHS, senior health economist, Professor Allyson Pollock,...
Teachers occupying the Wembley Park Sports Ground  against a City Academy say No to privately run schools

‘DEFEND STATE SCHOOLS!’ – ‘Trusts’ roll-out slammed

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‘WE WILL never give up state education,’ a teachers union leader vowed yesterday, after the announcement of plans to remove more schools from elected...